On August 2, 1937, Qiyang, the scorching sun shone in the sky, at this time, even the most diligent people were reluctant to go out, but today, countless Qiyang fathers and villagers gathered at Hongqiao Station of Xianggui Railway.

This is the Qiyang people seeing off their soldiers. On July 28, the Chinese Nationalist Government announced a nationwide mobilization, and all troops, including Yunnan and Guizhou, received mobilization orders. Xu Ming's security regiment was also incorporated into Gu Jiaqi's 128th Division, renamed the Provisional 7th Battalion, and rushed to the predetermined location as the vanguard to assemble.

Liu Junsheng stretched out the window and shook his hands vigorously to say goodbye to his parents, wife and children who saw him off. The newborn child didn't know what was happening, his mother took his little hand and shook it towards the slowly moving train with two big bony eyes and curiously looking at the eager, longing, reluctant, or worried faces around him. And in the train, his father and more than 1,200 Qiyang's children slowly disappeared, and finally disappeared into the sky.

In this time and space, history has been changed beyond recognition due to the flapping of the wings of an irresponsible big butterfly.

On July 28, Zhao Dengyu's 132nd Division and Feng Zhi'an's 37th Division fought a major battle at Qinghe and Shahe north of Beiping, and the Japanese army independently mixed the 1st Brigade and the 11th Brigade with superior firepower and air superiority to launch a fierce attack on the squadron, and the 29th Army's position was lost for a time.

On July 29, Song Zheyuan personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and executed a battalion commander who had escaped from the battle. At the same time, concentrate forces for counterattacks.

July 30, Townenburg

The 13th Army arrived at Nankou Station and launched an attack on the back of the Japanese mixed 1st Brigade at Shahe that night.

On August 1, in order to relieve the siege of Shahe, the Japanese army launched an attack on Longhutai and Deshengkou of the 13th Army in Nankou with an independent mixed second brigade. and launched a diversionary attack on Liu Ruming's troops in Zhangbei along Chahar with the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade. On the same day, Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division launched an attack on the Japanese strongholds near Tianjin, and once attacked the Haiguangsi Barracks and Dongjuzi Airfield.

The 5th, 6th, and 10th divisions of the Japanese army continued to go ashore at Tanggu by sea, while at the same time, the 17th Army of Gao Guizi, the 26th Army of Sun Lianzhong, the 20th Army of Shang Zhen and the 14th Army of Wei Lihuang also rushed to the battlefield along the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line, and Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army was engaged in battle in the eastern section of the Pingsui Line.

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At this point, China and Japan launched a general battle in Pingjin. The squadron invested more than 40 divisions including the Central Army, the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, and the Jinsui Army, and a total of more than 300,000 troops were put into battle. The Japanese army was refueled into 4 divisions and 5 mixed brigades, with a total strength of 140,000.

August 9, 1937, Wuxi.

Many of the soldiers of the temporary 7th battalion saw a big city like Wuxi for the first time, but they didn't know each other, and they all thought that this was Tianjin! In their opinion, since there was a big war between China and Japan in North China, they would go to Hebei to participate in the battle.

"Qianli, how did we come to Wuxi?" Qin Lieping, who had just gotten off the boat, couldn't wait to ask.

Xu Ming gave the officers of Huangpu a look, and everyone understood that there were many people on the dock, and it was not a place to talk.

After everyone found a secluded place, Xu Ming said: "Shanghai, I'm afraid it won't be peaceful......

One reason why Xu Ming's operation was the result of driving his troops to the Shanghai area was because his troops were all from Hunan and were more adapted to the environment in the south of the Yangtze River.

But the main thing is that history has changed, and now Xu Ming no longer knows what will happen next in Pingjin, and the advantage of his traverser is almost lost in North China. And in Shanghai, I'm afraid everything is still happening as usual.

Sure enough, on August 9, the Hongqiao Airport incident broke out. The squadron leader of the Japanese Shanghai Special Marine Corps, Yuo Oyama, and Private Saito, carried out reconnaissance at the Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, an important place in the middle of the world, and were killed by the squadron.

There was also a small episode in the Hongqiao incident, when Yu Hongjun, then mayor of Shanghai, sent a telegram to Kimasa Okamoto, the Japanese consul general in Shanghai, and said: "Mr. Okamoto, I heard that the marines of your country often send people to carry out activities in various parts of Shanghai, which is very unfavorable to the situation between the two countries. ”

Okamoto Jimasa: "My great Japanese emperor ** team will never go out without permission, and has always been law-abiding and disciplined... (500 words omitted here), this statement is a slander against our Imperial Army of the Japanese Empire! ”

Yu Hongjun said: "But someone saw your army haunting the airport. ”

Kimasa Okamoto immediately said, "No way! You must have read it wrong! Mayor Yu, you must be responsible when you speak. ”

Yu Hongjun couldn't help laughing, and said seriously on the phone: "Really? It seems that last night someone saw two soldiers of your country, one of whom was a lieutenant, Yuo Oyama, driving a vehicle in Shanghai..."

The nonsense was exposed to his face, and Okamoto Kimasa did not blush, lying was already an instinct for him: "Oh, maybe they went to drink." ”

Yu Hongjun: "That's the case, did he drink too much?" I heard that he drove into our army's Hongqiao Airport last night! Kill one of my airport security guards! ”

Kimasa Okamoto: ......

After the incident, there was a round of bitter negotiations, and the Japanese army dispatched a large number of warships to intimidate, and by 12 August, there were more than 30 Japanese warships in Songhu, and at the same time ordered five warships on the Wuhan River to immediately turn eastward.

But it was too late, and Huang Jun could no longer reveal the news to the Japanese spies. These five warships and the remaining 30 or so Japanese ships have long been under the control of China and the government. The Chinese Navy has destroyed all navigation beacons in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and set up a complete blockade line in Jiangyin.

On August 14, under the joint attack of the Chinese Air Force and the defenders of the fort, the Japanese flagship "Yaeyama" was sunk by Chinese mines when it forcibly broke through the Jiangyin River. The rest of the Japanese ships were also sunk or captured, and they had to accept the fate of surrendering to the squadron, and the 30,000 Japanese expatriates loaded were also detained by the squadron.

The Chinese side declared this a "great victory for Jiangyin".

The Japanese side, on the other hand, was ashamed to admit it, first calling it the "Yangtze River Incident" and then declaring that "the Japanese side was forced to lay down its arms because the warships were full of Japanese nationals." And immediately recalled the Japanese consul in Nanjing, Hanayamasa, this once glorious spy chief, will be severely court-martialed in Japan. It is a great shame for the Japanese secret services to fail to detect the news in advance and cause heavy losses to the Japanese army!

Xu Ming picked up the "Ta Kung Pao", which had just recorded the report of China's victory in Jiangyin, Xu Ming trembled with excitement, and invited the officers to have a meal at the best restaurant in Wuxi.

Maybe the victory in Jiangyin may not be able to change the situation in Songhu, but for Xu Ming, there are enough reasons to be happy. On the battlefield in North China, even if Japanese prisoners of war could be caught, only one or two, they were still injured and could not move, but on the Jiangyin River, the Chinese Navy actually caught more than 1,000!

The only regret is that no one knows that this is their own credit, the navy believes that this is the success of the navy's Jiangyin blockade line, the army believes that the Jiangyin battery played a key role, and the air force insists on its own bombing and has achieved great results. No one knows how much this has to do with the Huang Jun espionage case......

It doesn't matter, it's China's success anyway. Xu Ming and everyone pushed the cup and changed the glass, drank very happily, and imagined how he Xu Ming strategized and fought bravely on the fierce and cruel Songhu battlefield, and how to fight bravely .......

I'm afraid he doesn't know that others have to fight for a long time, and he has to fight for a long time for soy sauce.

In early September, Xu Ming received an order for him and his troops to go to Haiyan to set up defenses.

After receiving the order, Xu Ming was dumbfounded. Where is Haiyan, Xu Ming opened the map and saw that it was opposite Shangyu, Zhejiang, east of Hangzhou.

Is there a need for arming here? If the Japanese army wants to attack Hangzhou, it can land from Haining; If you want to support the Japanese army in the Songhu battlefield, you can land from Wusong on the front or Jinshanwei on the flank. It's impossible to get to Haiyan!

Xu Ming took a sip of the teacup, his mouth full of the smell of soy sauce.

Xu Ming picked up the newspaper and looked at it boredly, he had been making soy sauce for a month, oh no, he had been reading the newspaper for a month.

The newspapers were full of good news, and there were "great victories" almost every day, and "big victories" in every battle. However, it was precisely in this continuous "victory" and "turn" that Beiping and Tianjin were still lost. The Japanese troops divided into two routes, attacking west along the Pingsui Line and south along the Pinghan Line.

On the Songhu battlefield, the news of "victory" is also continuous.

"The fierce battle in Yuepu resulted in more than 1,000 enemy casualties."

"Our army won a great victory, killing more than 5,000 enemies and capturing 500-600."

"In the bloody battle of Luodian, our army defeated more than 10,000 Japanese troops."

But it was in this continuous "victory" that the squadron on the Songhu battlefield gradually fell into passivity, and the battle line gradually moved back.

Although even the troops of Sichuan and Guizhou rushed to the battlefields of North China and Songhu on foot with leggings and luggage, Japan's superior mobilization ability changed the tide of the war.

On August 14, Japan issued the third mobilization order for the 3rd, 11th, and 14th divisions.

On August 21, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters decided to mobilize the 101st, 108th, 109th and 16th Divisions.

On September 1, the fifth mobilization began!

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Before the war, according to Japan's own statistics, they had only 17 divisions and regiments of the army, with more than 230,000 men. But just a month later, the Japanese army mobilized 430,000 troops! Two months later, the Japanese army in North China reached 370,000 and Shanghai at 190,000. This does not include the Northeast Kwantung Army, the Army, the Korean Army, the Xian Army, and the troops left behind in the Japanese mainland.

Chahar, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, millions of people from China and Japan fought battles, and in the second half of 1937, the land of China was shrouded in artillery fire.

But what else can he Xu Ming do besides soy sauce.

Xu Ming picked up a flashlight and patrolled the camp with the guards.

"Password—Loyalty"

"Serve the country!"

Xu Ming felt a little comforted when he saw that the sentry was still vigilant, after all, after three years of tempering, his army was already a real elite.

Xu Ming threw a cigarette over and asked, "Are the brothers okay now?" Are you afraid of the Japanese? ”

The sentry was about to stand upright, Xu Ming waved his hand, signaling him to relax, and the sentry replied: "Everyone is a little anxious to stay here, and I really want to go to the front line to fight devils." ”

Xu Ming nodded happily, lit a lighter, lit a cigarette for the sentry, and said, "That's good, just don't be afraid of the Japanese." ”

The sentry said eagerly: "Tuanzao, you have great powers, can you get us to the front line to fight, otherwise, others will kill all the devils, and we can only watch." ”

Xu Ming was stunned, "Why do you have such thoughts?" ”

"Didn't the battle report the day before yesterday say that more than 3,000 devils were killed? Little Japan has a few soldiers, and if they kill like this, they won't kill them all in a few days. ”

Xu Ming sighed in his heart, I'm afraid that the battle report will be divided by ten! But he can't say it explicitly, otherwise it will affect morale.

It is naturally good for the soldiers to have a strong desire to fight, but they also have the idea of underestimating the enemy, so it seems that they should discuss it with Zhao Ren and Qin Lieping.

But this soldier is right, he is going to find a way to fight the Japanese.